In week 6 we had to create a side step blocking animation that loops twice to move forward.
George showed us an animation he made of himself walking forwards to give us a better understanding of what he wanted. In the PowerPoint we are provided with a plan of how each step of the keyframes moves. This was a great help to us in animating it ourselves, we still needed to turn to the front to adjust the relationship between the hips and the legs after we had made the side view.
Afterwards for the class critique George made changes to my model where the foot landed and lifted.
At the end of the class, I created a complete continuous side walk based on the Blocking side walk I did the first time. In the process of creating the continuous animation, I found that I needed to exaggerate the movement of the foot when it was lifted, so that the foot would appear to be softer and more flexible.
After that, I started to create the forward walk animation. It was easy to create the side walk animation by comparing to the flat forward walk diagram provided by George, but when the camera turned to the front, I found that there was a big problem with the hips and the stride which needed to be adjusted and then adjusted again with the idea of maintaining balance in mind. The side-to-side wobble.